Biography
Chieko Higashiyama (September 30, 1890 – May 8, 1980) was a Japanese actress. Graduating from the girls' school at Gakushuin, she married a businessman in 1909 and spent eight years in Moscow. In 1925, at the age of 35, she decided to become an actress. She trained at the Tsukiji Shōgekijō, a pioneering theater then-famous for modern Japanese plays and translated performances of Western playwrights. Higashiyama appeared in many stage productions, most famously as Madame Ranevskaya in Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard." She also appeared in films, including Tokyo Story, which was voted the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight and Sound directors' poll.
Movies & TV Shows
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Tokyo Story (1953) — Tomi Hirayama
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Early Summer (1951) — Shige Mamiya
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The Idiot (1951) — Satoko, Ayako's mother
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The Blue Sky Maiden (1957) — Shizue Hirooka
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Carmen's Innocent Love (1952) — Maid
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Here's to the Young Lady (1949) — Yasuko's mother
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Port of Flowers (1943) — Okano
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple (1964) — Strange Beauty
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Sincere Heart (1953) — Ichi
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The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958) — Otaka (Ôishi's mother)
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The Garden of Women (1954) — Schoolmaster
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The Wandering Princess (1960) — Nao Sugawara
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The Snow Flurry (1959) — Tomi
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Spring Dreams (1960) — Grandma
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Fireworks Over the Sea (1951) — Mitsu
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Broken Drum (1949) — Nobuko
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The Angry Street (1950)
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The Tale of Genji (1951) — Lady Kokiden
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The Girl I Loved (1946) — Mother Okin
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Apostasy (1948)
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The Portrait (1948) — Nomura's Wife
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The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947)
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Sing, Young People! (1963) — Okada's grandmother
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The Most Valuable Wife (1959)
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Shogun and His Mistress 2 (1967) — Eiho, nun
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This Year's Love (1962)
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Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962) — Hama, Tokusuke's wife
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Marriage (1947) — Fumie's mother
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The Maid's Kid (1955)
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Sisters of Nishijin (1952)
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Shisha to no kekkon (1960)
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The Kii River (1966) — Toyono, Hana's grandmother
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The Radish and the Carrot (1965)
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Four Seasons of Women (1950) — Mother
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When a Woman Loves (1960) — Relative
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The Princess Sen (1954)
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Wakaki sugata (1943) — Kitamura's wife
- A Samurai's Love (1954)
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The Doctor (1955)
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Les Miserables I: God and the Devil (1950)